Keir Starmer’s ‘one-in, one-out’ deal with France will take 300 YEARS to deport all small boat migrants who have arrived under Labour: report

Labour’s ‘one in, one out’ deal with France will take 300 years to deport all small boat migrants who have arrived in the UK since the election, according to a new report.

Since Sir Keir Starmer became Prime Minister last July, 59,976 migrants have crossed the Channel and arrived here illegally.

But only 42 have been removed since the agreement with president Emmanuel Macron’s government came into force in July.

Migration Watch UK, which campaigns for tighter border controls, calculated that this equates to a rate of around 0.55 immigration removals per day.

The group said it would take the same proportion of 297 years to eliminate all 59,976 people who fall under Labor as a result.

The exiles would be completed in 2322.

Migration Watch Organization President Alp Mehmet said: ‘This is not a legacy to be proud of, Mr. Prime Minister.

‘Also, if we take in one immigrant for every one we return, we’ll have to deal with the same number of plus new arrivals.

‘It appeared that the public was tired of lies and fuss.’

As one of his first acts in office, Sir Keir scrapped the Conservative Party’s Rwanda asylum policy.

The Rwanda deal was designed to deter Channel crossings and save lives by sending migrants to the East African country on a one-way ticket to seek asylum there rather than here.

Last week, the Government’s £200,000-a-year border security commander admitted that a solution to the small boat crisis in the Channel ‘won’t happen very quickly’.

Martin Hewitt, who was appointed to the post a year ago, told MPs he was ‘disappointed’ by the increase in the number of arrivals.

Mr Hewitt said of embarking on the fight against people smugglers: ‘It was always going to take time.’

He also confirmed that the Home Office is still waiting for the French to finalize new maritime rules, first announced in the summer, that will allow officers to intervene on boats after they are already at sea.

In his statement to the Home Affairs select committee, he said that a new ‘maritime doctrine’ had been developed by the French but that ‘legal processes’ were still ongoing.

In June it was confirmed that the French planned to allow their officers to block the departure of small boats within 300 meters of the coastline.

Alp Mehmet, President of UK Migration Watch, said it would take 300 years at the current rate to deport all those who came to the Labor Party.

But Mr Hewitt said: ‘We are waiting for this to be deployed.

‘Officers have to go through various legal processes to ensure they are properly insured.’

The number of migrants crossing the canal has exceeded 187,000 since the beginning of the crisis; including more than 36,000 so far this year, an increase of a third at the same point in 2024.

This year’s figure is close to exceeding the total reached last year.

In addition to the 42 immigrants deported under the ‘one in, one out’ agreement, 23 immigrants arrived from France under this program.

A Home Office spokesman said of the Migration Monitoring Report: ‘These calculations are extremely simplistic and should not be relied upon.

‘The last government’s Rwanda plan took years, cost hundreds of millions of pounds and failed to forcibly displace a single person.

‘Thanks to the historic agreement we made with France, we brought back the 42 in a few weeks at a fraction of the cost.

‘As flights to France resume and ramp up, we are sending a clear message: If you come here illegally, you face detention and deportation, so think twice before embarking on this journey.’